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Meaning of kettle hole | Babel Free

Noun CEFR B2

Definitions

A depression in the ground occurring as the result of a large block of ice getting buried by glacial outwash and subsequent melting of it.

Equivalents

Español kettle marmita de gigante

Suomi suppa

Svenska dödisgrop dödishåla

Examples

“An adult male mammoth and four juveniles, trapped about 14,500 years ago in a boggy ʽkettle holeʼ left by a retreating glacier in Shropshire, are the most recent record in the UK.”

CEFR level

B2

Upper Intermediate
This word is part of the CEFR B2 vocabulary — upper intermediate level.

See also

kettle lake kettle lead kettle logic kettle of fish kettle stitch kettle trap